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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Taiwan-based component suppliers predict Apple, RIM, and HTC to ship more than 50% of global smartphone shipments

The Taiwan-based component suppliers have predicted that top smartphone makers- Apple, RIM and HTC will see the growth of global shipment respectively 19-20 million, 14-15 million and 8-9 million smartphones in the first quarter of 2011. These three top companies together will share more than 50% of global smartphone shipments of 80-85 million units.

Among these top smartphone companies, Apple’s iPhone is the most popular brand name. Apple has been estimated to ship 20-25% global market share replacing RIM as the second-ranked smartphone vendor.

It is expected that RIM’s BlackBerry is the only smartphone company who can compete with Apple’s iPhone. However, according to the prediction, there will shipment will be 5-6% less than Apple.

It is needless to say anything about HTC, the American based smartphone company. HTC is continuously producing latest smartphones for different companies. They have the highest possibility to reach their estimated shipment in the New Year.

What about Samsung Electronics? This year Samsung got much media publicity with the launch of their latest smartphone Samsung Galaxy S. However, Taiwan-based component makers have not mentioned about this manufacturer company.

According to the report, these vendors and Nokia will account for 90% of the global smartphone market in the first quarter of 2011. May be Chinese based smartphone companies will compete for the rest of 10% of the global smartphone market.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Nokia is buying Symbian shares and making Symbian free for all

Recently, Finland mobile giant, Nokia, bought out its fellow shareholders in Symbian, the UK based handset Software Company. Nokia is now also making Symbian loyalty free. Market analysts believe that Nokia is doing it to outsmart its rivals and this is going to seriously hurt Microsoft, Google and other major mobile software producers. Currently, Symbian is used in two-thirds of the total smart phone handsets with computer like capabilities around the world and 6% of the total mobile phones around the world. Other major mobile softwares are: Android from Google; Apple’s iPhone, Windows Mobile from Microsoft; and BlackBerry of RIM. Telegraph.co.uk reports:

Nokia was quick yesterday to dismiss the idea that its moves were simply a reaction to its rivals. "This is a market-making move and looking at it as a response to anything would not do justice to what we are doing," said Kai Oistamo, executive vice-president of Nokia.

But analysts were in little doubt. "This move's a shrewd response to growing threats from other providers of mobile phone software," said Geoff Blaber of industry watchers CCS Insight.

Mr Blaber made particular reference to the "open-source" LiMo Foundation as well as Google's Android, which also promises to offer handset makers an operating system at virtually zero cost.

Nokia is also launching Symbian Foundation, a non-profit organization that will unite the Symbian with three user interfaces.

Currently, Windows Mobile from Microsoft is controlling 13% of the smart phone market. Microsoft charges from $8-$15 per phone from the handset makers and Symbian charges $4.10. As Nokia is going to make Symbian free for all, according to Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner analyst, this puts a lot of pressure on Microsoft as they are trying to make their place in the mobile phone market.

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Nokia E66 and NokiaE71: Two new E-series phones for corporate users

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia, has launched two new E-series phones. First launched in December 2007 and sold more than 10 million around the world, the E-series phones are email-optimized devices created to compete with products like RIM’s (TSE:RIM) BlackBerry phones. They are developed for corporate people.

Meet Nokia E66 and Nokia E71, the latest members of Nokia’s E-family. According Leif-Olof Wallin, analyst, Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), said that Nokia E71 and Nokia E66 are the comeback phones of Nokia in the corporate arena. Nokia E51, the last E family phone, was launched nine months ago. After that, rivals like Research In Motion (RIM) and Sony Ericsson introduced new models. Still, Nokia is the leader when it comes to global cell-phone sales dominating 40% of the market share. Wallin is hopeful that that NokiaE71 will replace NokiaE61i.

Nokia will start supplying the models for GSM networks in July. The pre-subsidy and pre-local tax cost of the products will be $538 (in some websites it was $540/$541). Mobile mag reported that Nokia E66 will be priced under $500 and Nokia E71 will be priced more than $500.

Dimension of Nokia E71:
Length: 114 mm
Breadth: 57 mm
Width: 10mm
In terms of shape and form, Nokia E71 coincides with BlackBerry as well as Motorola Q9h and Samsung JACK. Compared to its predecessors, Nokia E71 is very thin.

Features:

The NokiaE71 can be referred as a follow up of Nokia E61 and Nokia E62 full QWERTY phones.
The NokiaE71 comes with a better user interface.
The NokiaE71 has a front-facing camera for video conferencing, and built-in 3.2-megapixel camera.
On the GSM network, the NokiaE71 has a talk time of 10.5 hours and 4.5 hours in 3G network.
The NokiaE71 has 2.36 inch QVGA screen.

Dimension of Nokia E66:
Length: 107 mm
Breadth: 49 mm
Width: 13mm

Features of Nokia E66:

The NokiaE66 is a slider phone.
The NokiaE66 has an “orientation sensor” that automatically optimizes itself for full screen viewing. It also silences the ringer when the phone is turned over.
The NokiaE66 can switch between portrait and landscape mode.
The NokiaE66 has 2.4 inch QVGA screen.

Common features:

Both these phones support Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and e-mails of more than 1000 ISPs.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 use Microsoft Exchange, the most popular email software among corporate people. With these phones you can easily get real-time access to your email, calendar, contacts and tasks. You can also download Word, Excel, Powerpoint or PDF attachments.

Both these phones also support the Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email solution and other third party email solutions like System Seven and Visto Mobile.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 have buttons for retrieving email, messages.

According to customer feedback, calendar and contacts have been made available at the touch of a button on both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 have stainless steel body. They are available in grey steel and white steel.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 are smart phones that support Nokia's S60 operating system, with Feature Pack 1.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 support 850/1900 WCDMA/HSDPA for U.S. 3G support.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 support 802.11b/g Wi-Fi.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 have Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. They also support stereo streaming.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 support two home screens: one for business and the other one is personal mode.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 have 110MB internal memory.

Both NokiaE66 and NokiaE71 support the latest Ovi services such as maps, music and media sharing, Nokia Maps.

Both Nokia E71 and Nokia E66 have integrated mobile VPN support. It would give mobile professionals access to their company intranet, and device lock and wipe to protect valuable information.

The phones also have technologies that allow IT departments to effectively manage security settings, corporate applications, data and advanced voice features. They also support enterprise-specific deployment.